Model Says She Was Cancelled From Louis Vuitton Cruise for Being ‘Too Big’

In a lengthy Facebook post this morning, Danish model Ulrikke Hoyer said she was cast in Louis Vuitton’s cruise show in Japan and flew to Tokyo for a fitting before being cut from the lineup for being, in her words, “too big” and getting sent home. According to her account, casting agent Alexia Cheval told Hoyer’s agent that “Ulrikke needs to drink only water for the next 24 hours.” (Hoyer says that she is a size 34/36, or an American size 2/4.) We have reached out to reps for Louis Vuitton and Hoyer for comment and will update this when we hear back.

“What should have been a truly amazing and unique experience ended up being a very humiliating experience,” she wrote, calling the standards high-fashion models are held to “completely unattainable and directly damaging to the human body … Many of the girls don’t have their periods, and/or [have] changes the color of their skin because of bad and incorrect nutrition and almost everyone [has] a completely distorted relationship with food.”